SC 02 / 10 Length 02:10 · 4K, 24 fps

Quiet Rooms

Fenwick Lowe Architects · Architecture · 2025

Client: Fenwick Lowe Architects
Role: 3D, lighting, and edit
Software: Blender, Cycles, DaVinci Resolve
Deliverables: Launch film, 12 stills, hoarding prints
Year: 2025

Fenwick Lowe wanted people to feel the library before the first wall goes up.

We took their drawings and the sun path of the real site, and built six rooms that keep to both. The film follows one day, dawn to dusk, in two minutes. The light in every room is where it will be on that date.

No people, no furniture catalog, no lens flares. Just plaster, reeds, sky, and the slow move of a shadow across a floor.

One render, framed for every place it will hang

Open frame 3:2 · Delivery guides

Frame line

White vaulted arches open to a bright blue sky.

2.39:1 Scope 16:9 Widescreen 4:3 Standard 1:1 Square 9:16 Vertical

The cloister, rendered once at 6K. The 16:9 cut is the film, the square is for the press, the tall one is for phones.

How the reading room was lit

Quiet Rooms · Room 02 · 18:40

A dark room with an arched window full of clouds and a low bench in the light. — Cycles · 4,096 samples · One sun, one sky, no fill lights

01 The window

The only light in the room. A sky texture at the real time of day, nothing else.
02 The bench

Moved forty centimeters so the light edge falls across it at 18:40.
03 The dark wall

A rough plaster shader. Smooth walls looked like a render. Rough ones looked like a room.
04 The clouds

A volume, not a picture, so the window glass has something real to refract.